The opposition has contested the accuracy of the electoral roll for Sunday’s polls
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A few days after its inauguration, the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou is covered with a veil, following the controversy over the lack of similarity of the work with the father of the Burkinabe revolution.
In early January Bongo survived a brief coup attempt by army rebels while in Morocco.
People left explosives at the top of a mountain to cause an avalanche when it exploded
Polls in 2014 brought Beji Caid Essebsi, the country’s first democratically elected president.
Militants “opened fire” on security forces at a checkpoint on the southern part of the city’s ring road
Ghana is ethnically diverse, with three major ethnic groups and numerous minority groups
Atiku Abubakar is challenging the outcome of the presidential election in court after alleging that it was full of irregularities
“I was elected president of the republic – I cannot fall back on being an MP, never!”
Somalian President Abdullahi Mohamed and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta met in Nairobi to try and resolve a bitter maritime border dispute